MIOB In Shorts Award 2026: Vote for Cottbus after online voting

Voting for the MIOB In Shorts Award 2026 closes on October 15. The award belongs to the MIOB (Moving Images – Open Borders) network program and is awarded to European short films selected entirely by public vote. Each MIOB member festival nominated two titles, bringing this year’s selection to 12.

Since September 1, the film has been streaming on European platform This Is Short, all with English subtitles and a dedicated voting button. Viewers can register and watch with a 14-day free trial by paying a monthly subscription fee of €0.99, without a credit card.

Once voting closes, the program moves on to Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus, where all 12 titles will be screened in November. The winner will be announced at the festival closing ceremony.

All 12 films were produced in 2025. Austria is represented by: Found & Lost From Reza Rasouli (17 minutes) and From something to nothing Michael Heindl (7 minutes), sent by Portugal. have faith Written by Helen Esther Aschauer and Leonor Patrocinio (8 minutes) people moving By Stephanie Rich (20 minutes) Radu Muntean index (29 minutes) is from Romania and is a work by Máté Gergely Kiss. PVRGATORIVM (24 minutes) In Hungary. The Serbian entry is: lime kiln worker Author: Nevena Micić, Katarina Micić and Filip Marojević (10 minutes) by Mani Blok. beyond silence (17 minutes) is Mikkel Storm Glomstein, representing the Netherlands. pet extermination (14 minutes) in Aušra Lukošiūnienė, Norway. Lost/found world (20 minutes) Kristjan Poom, Lithuania hopscotch (19 minutes) Estonia. Hope Chinar’s Dead but not gone (22 minutes) completes the list with Turkish and German productions.

Fiction and documentary share the program with experimental work, and the films range from intimate personal stories to broader questions of identity and displacement.

Featured image: E/rased worldFilms of Aušra Lukošiūnienė